2011/11/1 Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com>:
Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
...It would be nice if it were portable to other Smalltalks, but it would be useful. ... XP advocates would tell us that we don't need the code and to just delete it.
The second point is valid, but only applies to a subset of comments. For example, in my case the thing that needs to be commented is Applescript code that provides context for the method. It is part of the documentation, and must contain double quotes to be valid Applescript.
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An alternative would be like in some scripting language : everything after this mark is a comment. We can even doIt easily with Smalltalk-80 parser, I remember that the end of tokens was marked with a DoIt character encoded as value 30 or something like that ;) If you did introduce such character in code, then interpretation did stop at the DoIt mark. I always thought this was a bug - but now I understand a possible usage :) Of course, this only works when Browsing a single method. If you file out sources, then you still have to delimit the method source with doubled bangs ! or something... So take this as a joke more than a proposition. Nicolas